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river, sergio quintana is live in napa. sergio? reporter: well, the rains have already caused some problems around town near napa, and the flood warning for the napa river has been extended through the weekend. tomorrow afternoon is when the napa river is supposed to be at its highest point. >> rain soaked trees are the first to cause problems on this stretch of redwood road. two trees came down and took out a powerline, knocking out electricity for 50 pg&e customers. the closed road also turned what usually be a five minute drive through the neighborhood into a 45 minute detour and caused concerns about nearby creeks and rivers. >> i was worried it wased inning here. >> some of his neighbors have put up small dikes in their front yard just to case. >> the creek will pop out up the street first and run down the street, and then the water is looking to get back in the creek so what the neighbors do is dike up the front ofÑç the yards to keep the water from coming in. >> at this city sand bag station, rob and some friends a
river, sergio quintana is live in napa. sergio? reporter: well, the rains have already caused some problems around town near napa, and the flood warning for the napa river has been extended through the weekend. tomorrow afternoon is when the napa river is supposed to be at its highest point. >> rain soaked trees are the first to cause problems on this stretch of redwood road. two trees came down and took out a powerline, knocking out electricity for 50 pg&e customers. the closed road...
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river, sergio quintana is live in napa. sergio? reporter: well, the rains have already caused some problems around town near napa, and the flood warning for the napa river has been extended through the weekend. tomorrow afternoon is when the napa river is supposed to be at its highest point. >> rain soaked trees are the first to cause problems on this stretch of redwood road. two trees came down and took out a powerline, knocking out electricity for 50 pg&e customers. the closed road also turned what usually be a five five minute de through the neighborhood into a 45 minute detour and caused concerns about nearby creeks and rivers. >> i was worried it wased inning here. >> some of his neighbors have put up small dikes in their front yard just to case. >> the creek will pop out up the street first and run down the street, and then the water is looking to get back in the creek so what the neighbors do is dike up the front ofÑç the yards to keep the water from coming in. >> at this city sand bag station, rob and some friends
river, sergio quintana is live in napa. sergio? reporter: well, the rains have already caused some problems around town near napa, and the flood warning for the napa river has been extended through the weekend. tomorrow afternoon is when the napa river is supposed to be at its highest point. >> rain soaked trees are the first to cause problems on this stretch of redwood road. two trees came down and took out a powerline, knocking out electricity for 50 pg&e customers. the closed road...
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right now the napa river is reaching is highest level in downtown napa. john alston is at veterans memorial park. reporter: napa river is expected to reach its peak level between now and 6:00. however, no flooding is expected in the city of napa. officials and residents are crediting a flood project that is still underway. the sign says flooded, and the vons memorial park was supposed to be closed to the public at a precaution, but that didn't stop people from bellying up to the railing to see the swollen napa river for themselves. it's big, the river project seems to be working. i was a big skeptic, but i think it's doing its job. reporter: upstream, about five miles north of town, some residents were no so leisurely as they watched the current rise. kohl is where the napa river is expected to go a foot aboveed in stage. >> could get wet on the property. i 1/2 natural drainage that runs threw the vineyards and the creek. hopefully i'll stay dry. >> in rutherford we found portions of vineyard underwater. erosion is a concern for grape growers. along main
right now the napa river is reaching is highest level in downtown napa. john alston is at veterans memorial park. reporter: napa river is expected to reach its peak level between now and 6:00. however, no flooding is expected in the city of napa. officials and residents are crediting a flood project that is still underway. the sign says flooded, and the vons memorial park was supposed to be closed to the public at a precaution, but that didn't stop people from bellying up to the railing to see...
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john alston has the story from napa. >> napa river reached the people before 6:00 p.m. tonight. it stayed within the banks and nobody was flooded. officials and residents give credit to the recent flood control budget. >> i'm glad they engineered it correctly and it's working. >> it seems to be working. i was a big skeptic, yeah, think it's doing the job. >> the napa river was expected to grow a foot above flood stage which is five miles north of downtown. it's mainly an agricultural area with few homes nearby. >> it's wet around the property. i have a natural drainage swell over the vineyards. hopefully i'll stay dry. >> we are were expecting more rainfall. we had two inches in napa and they were calling from three to seven. just waited nature works. sometimes she works and sometimes not. >> sandbags were not needed. >> we came in this morning. they said, hey, we're not sure what is going to happen. that is what we did. >> as the weather front passes, all the flood watches and warnings in effect today have now been cancelled. in napa, john alston, abc7 news. >> we get a little
john alston has the story from napa. >> napa river reached the people before 6:00 p.m. tonight. it stayed within the banks and nobody was flooded. officials and residents give credit to the recent flood control budget. >> i'm glad they engineered it correctly and it's working. >> it seems to be working. i was a big skeptic, yeah, think it's doing the job. >> the napa river was expected to grow a foot above flood stage which is five miles north of downtown. it's mainly an...
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. >> ama: in napa, the national weather service issued a flood warning for the napa river, a waterway prone to flooding, and the city's residents are hoping it's not a repeat of the devastating flood in 2005. >> the napa river looks calm now but that could change in a hurry tonight with another round of heavy rains about to hit. serious floods are common here, and residents are on alert, preparing by filling sandbags provided by the city. >> when stuff like this happens, city of napa takes care of napa. >> residents filled 700 bags, ten tons of sand in three hours this morning. >> my son and i picked up 12 sandbags. >> he had the forsythe to plan ahead because of the past. his home has flooded three times. sanbags are one of many weapons in his arsenal. >> we expect the worst to be tomorrow morning. that usually happenings. the rain falls, river rises, comes down and floods our area. >> the national weather service warns the river will rise above flood stage tomorrow in 2005, the river overwhelmed downtown napa and flooded thousands of acres. 1,000 homes were flooded or destroyed. sin
. >> ama: in napa, the national weather service issued a flood warning for the napa river, a waterway prone to flooding, and the city's residents are hoping it's not a repeat of the devastating flood in 2005. >> the napa river looks calm now but that could change in a hurry tonight with another round of heavy rains about to hit. serious floods are common here, and residents are on alert, preparing by filling sandbags provided by the city. >> when stuff like this happens, city...
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the storm dropped plenty of water, but the napa river never flooded. it was projected to rise a foot. county officials credit a flood control project with keeping things under control. a few businesses had sandbags ready, but it turned out they weren't needed. the flood warning has also been canceled on the russian river. abc7 news reporter thomas roman has that part of the story. >> reporter: angie is cleaning up in front of her home. today's rain and rising russian river came up to her garage door. >> it came all the way up to the edge of the garage and it only went in there when the people would drive by with their truck. >> they lived here for 22 years. she built this house with the main living quarters 20 feet above the street level because the river floods so often. she says at one point her daughter used this kayak to help a neighbor out of his flooded home. anthony white who lives up the street showed us how high it was on his shin. he said he was ready to get his family out as the water was rising. >> we were definitely ready to get out of her
the storm dropped plenty of water, but the napa river never flooded. it was projected to rise a foot. county officials credit a flood control project with keeping things under control. a few businesses had sandbags ready, but it turned out they weren't needed. the flood warning has also been canceled on the russian river. abc7 news reporter thomas roman has that part of the story. >> reporter: angie is cleaning up in front of her home. today's rain and rising russian river came up to her...
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novato, nine miles, napa, the fog migrating towards the east, napa, seven miles visibility. the rest of the bay area doing pretty good but the central valley fog will migrate back torts the west overnight. that could pose some travel problems tomorrow morning. right now we're 54 in antioch. 44 in concord. 52, san francisco. napa, 40. 48 in mountain view. we'll continue with the patchy areas of dense fog overnight. warmer getting into sunday and monday, and then start to cool things down and bring showers back into our forecast. lows tonight, generally mid-to upper 30s in the north bay, a little warmer thanks to the veil of clouds over you. 47 for san francisco tonight and we'll go 37 with pockets of fog near the livermore valley area. here's what i'm talking about. fog, very dense in the central valley, and then the winds migrate back towards the west so towards the delta, antioch, oakley, brentwood, you may wake up with very dense fog and then it should start to thin out by around, i'd say,here's the 11:0. here's the setup. high pressure diverting storms to the north of us.
novato, nine miles, napa, the fog migrating towards the east, napa, seven miles visibility. the rest of the bay area doing pretty good but the central valley fog will migrate back torts the west overnight. that could pose some travel problems tomorrow morning. right now we're 54 in antioch. 44 in concord. 52, san francisco. napa, 40. 48 in mountain view. we'll continue with the patchy areas of dense fog overnight. warmer getting into sunday and monday, and then start to cool things down and...
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the storm dropped plenty of water, but the napa river never flooded. it was projected to rise a foot. county officials credit a flood control project with keeping things under control. a few businesses had sandbags ready, but it turned out they weren't needed. the flood warning has also been canceled on the russian river. abc7 news reporter thomas roman has that part of the story. >> reporter: angie is cleaning up in front of her home. today's rain and rising russian river came up to her garage door. >> it came all the way up to the edge of the garage and it only went in there when the people would drive by with their truck. >> they lived here for 22 years. she built this house with the main living quarters 20 feet above the street level because the river floods so often. she says at one point her daughter used this kayak to help a neighbor out of his flooded home. anthony white who lives up the street showed us how high it was on his shin. he said he was ready to get his family out as the water was rising. >> we were definitely ready to get out of her
the storm dropped plenty of water, but the napa river never flooded. it was projected to rise a foot. county officials credit a flood control project with keeping things under control. a few businesses had sandbags ready, but it turned out they weren't needed. the flood warning has also been canceled on the russian river. abc7 news reporter thomas roman has that part of the story. >> reporter: angie is cleaning up in front of her home. today's rain and rising russian river came up to her...
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novato, nine miles, napa, the fog migrating towards the east, napa, seven miles visibility. the rest of the bay area doing pretty good but the central valley fog will migrate back torts the west overnight. that could pose some travel problems tomorrow morning. right now we're 54 in antioch. 44 in concord. 52, san francisco. napa, 40. 48 in mountain view. we'll continue with the patchy areas of dense fog overnight. warmer getting into sunday and monday, and then start to cool things down and bring showers back into our forecast. lows tonight, generally mid-to upper 30s in the north bay, a little warmer thanks to the veil of clouds over you. 47 for san francisco tonight and we'll go 37 with pockets of fog near the livermore valley area. here's what i'm talking about. fog, very dense in the central valley, and then the winds migrate back towards the west so towards the delta, antioch, oakley, brentwood, you may wake up with very dense fog and then it should start to thin out by around, i'd say, 10:00, 11:00. here's the setup. high pressure diverting storms to the north of us. t
novato, nine miles, napa, the fog migrating towards the east, napa, seven miles visibility. the rest of the bay area doing pretty good but the central valley fog will migrate back torts the west overnight. that could pose some travel problems tomorrow morning. right now we're 54 in antioch. 44 in concord. 52, san francisco. napa, 40. 48 in mountain view. we'll continue with the patchy areas of dense fog overnight. warmer getting into sunday and monday, and then start to cool things down and...
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visibility down to a quarter o of a mile in napa valley. overall we are going to see dryer weather moving in. more sunshine and warmer temperatures on the way, but stepping outside, grab your jacket, those temperatures down just a bit, especially inland, 37 degrees in santa row that. 44 -- santa a rosa. enjoying sunshine, maybe passing clouds. temperatures should be in the 50s and 60s. we will be warming up nicely for the weekend. we'll talk more about that in a moment. check out the roads with gianna franco. >>> happy friday. let's head to 101. we have reports of an earlier accident, south 101 by hospital curve, chp cleared that quickly. everything is out of the lanes on the right shoulder, no delays if you work through there. east bay lots of careen. everything clear on 80, 880. and as far as accidents, you want to look out for roadwork 580 eastbound on north flynn. should happen before 11:00. eastbound highway 4, roadwork reported there as well. no delays as you work your way through antioch. and we have road work on the dumbarton bridge
visibility down to a quarter o of a mile in napa valley. overall we are going to see dryer weather moving in. more sunshine and warmer temperatures on the way, but stepping outside, grab your jacket, those temperatures down just a bit, especially inland, 37 degrees in santa row that. 44 -- santa a rosa. enjoying sunshine, maybe passing clouds. temperatures should be in the 50s and 60s. we will be warming up nicely for the weekend. we'll talk more about that in a moment. check out the roads with...
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now that flood warning for napa county primarily becauseth
now that flood warning for napa county primarily becauseth
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. >>> flood warnings for the napa river were canceled yesterday afternoon to the relief of those nearby. some residents prepared for the worst putting sandbags around their properties. heavy rain brought the water level to three feet of going over the banks. >>> this is the russian river in guerneville over the weekend. flood warnings were cancelled. the river crested at 6 feet about an hour -- 16 feet about an hour ago. the highest recorded flood occurred in 1986 when the river reached 49 feet. >>> strong wind also caused a lot of problems. we have a broken power pole in san francisco sunset district leaving 8500 people without electricity yesterday. it was one of multiple incidents where trees or power polls brought down power lines. the latest outages show a 650 homes in the north bay without power and around 600 in the south bay as well as others. >>> rain opened up a large pothole on westbound 4 in pittsburg blamed for flattening the tires of two dozen cars yesterday. that's no fun. crews shut down the lane while they made those emergency repairs. it's now open again. >>> this is j
. >>> flood warnings for the napa river were canceled yesterday afternoon to the relief of those nearby. some residents prepared for the worst putting sandbags around their properties. heavy rain brought the water level to three feet of going over the banks. >>> this is the russian river in guerneville over the weekend. flood warnings were cancelled. the river crested at 6 feet about an hour -- 16 feet about an hour ago. the highest recorded flood occurred in 1986 when the...
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. >> reporter: but 2 1/2 hours south along the napa river people are still keeping a close eye on water levels. >> you never know with this river. it's iffy. you think it will go over and it won't then you don't and i want goes over. take as much precaution as you can. >> reporter: heavy rain fell at the oakland coliseum. forcing crews to sweep water offer the field before the raiders football game against cleveland. the wet weather and fog in northern california caused delays here at the los angeles international airport where travellers trying to get back to the san francisco area. this is a seventh grade english teacher trying to get back home but her flight to san francisco was delayed by an hour and a half. >> i have a stack of papers to grade and it's not getting any shorter while i'm here. >> reporter: the skies are clearing. forecasters expect a much drier start to the work week. >>> overseas rescue workers this morning are searching for survivors following the collapse of a tunnel in japan. at least nine people were killed when concrete slabs fell on cars and trucks. the tunnel
. >> reporter: but 2 1/2 hours south along the napa river people are still keeping a close eye on water levels. >> you never know with this river. it's iffy. you think it will go over and it won't then you don't and i want goes over. take as much precaution as you can. >> reporter: heavy rain fell at the oakland coliseum. forcing crews to sweep water offer the field before the raiders football game against cleveland. the wet weather and fog in northern california caused delays...
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ragehe flood prone city of napa was spared. be mayor says that's because overspent $250 million over the r st 20 years to keep the nearby napa river out of city streets. er the water was coming very fast and furious. but the culvert system we've teated was able to take that extra water and get it safely through town. th reporter: most of the flooding was confined to finedultural areas like this ltural arunty vineyard owned by s muchrson. >> that was under as much as six waet of water. noteporter: but he's not worried. grateft, he's grateful. > this just recharges our water supply and makes it better for next year's potential growth. we don't have to irrigate the vines maybe as much as we'd have to irrigate in a year without any flooding. >> reporter: there are still about 15,000 customers without power this morning. the majority of them here in sonoma county. this area got more than two inches of rain in the last 24 hours and, norah and charlie, there is now more rain in the forecast for tomorrow. ary of stately as much as we s
ragehe flood prone city of napa was spared. be mayor says that's because overspent $250 million over the r st 20 years to keep the nearby napa river out of city streets. er the water was coming very fast and furious. but the culvert system we've teated was able to take that extra water and get it safely through town. th reporter: most of the flooding was confined to finedultural areas like this ltural arunty vineyard owned by s muchrson. >> that was under as much as six waet of water....
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except some of that patchy fog. 30s, santa rosa, near, napa, antioch is in there. the wind picked up at livermore. they are now 50. 60 in oakland. 52 san francisco. mountain view as well. san jose, sunny and 49. some are cool, some are cold. some are very mild. you can see the ridge of high pressure. the mountain off the coast here. high pressure here. the high doesn't like the low. it's moving from north- northeast. the system in the gulf of alaska is on its way. as it does it will arrive late tuesday and wednesday. you can see the source and that will usher in very warm air. dry weather until then. mild to warm today. maybe a few record highs. had a couple today. would not surprise me one bit. we'll go from near 70 to some. to low 50s, i think by wednesday. today will be warmer for most. some of that patchy fog holding on. breezy at times to windy, blustery. some of the higher elevations coming off the berkeley hills. mount tam, mt. diablo. high clouds starting to move in. maybe late. nice today. sun, clouds on tuesday. rain, a cold rain wednesday morning and the
except some of that patchy fog. 30s, santa rosa, near, napa, antioch is in there. the wind picked up at livermore. they are now 50. 60 in oakland. 52 san francisco. mountain view as well. san jose, sunny and 49. some are cool, some are cold. some are very mild. you can see the ridge of high pressure. the mountain off the coast here. high pressure here. the high doesn't like the low. it's moving from north- northeast. the system in the gulf of alaska is on its way. as it does it will arrive late...